Tipster breaks into Epstein ranch and hands Dem lawmakers explosive evidence: report

Two Democratic state lawmakers from New Mexico were handed an explosive collection of evidence related to Jeffrey Epstein last month from an individual who claimed to have broken into the disgraced financier’s infamous Zorro Ranch, New Mexico Justice Department files obtained by Al Jazeera revealed on Tuesday.

Zorro Ranch is a sprawling New Mexico complex located about 40 miles east of Albuquerque, and was purchased by Epstein in 1993. Spanning across 7,600 acres, the property was reportedly central to Epstein’s disturbing plan to “seed the human race with his DNA,” and is alleged to be the burial site of “two foreign girls,” according to an FBI tip recently made public.

The speculation surrounding the property, coupled with the lack of law enforcement investigations into the complex, apparently drove one individual to take matters into their own hands. In an email to New Mexico Democratic state Reps. Andrea Romero and Marianna Anaya, the person claimed had "orchestrated a break-in” at the property — and they shared their disturbing findings.

“In the summer of 2020, I orchestrated a break-in at the El Zorro property. I realize this might be illegal, but men like that don’t deserve the protection of the law,” the individual wrote in a Feb. 16 email along with photographs they allegedly took on the property. They left their name redacted.

“We believe that they removed the bodies as there were multiple shallow grave-like plots that were dug up. In the White Yurt, they must have been doing rituals where they felt like they needed a defibrillator. In the files the Yurt is mentioned, as well as how to clean it.”

The individual also provided the lawmakers with geographical coordinates for the yurt – a round, portable insulated tent – which they said was surrounded by “graves.”

Al Jazeera obtained the email via a public records request, and it is not included in the Justice Department’s recent releases of millions of Epstein-related files. The outlet reported that the individual’s email was forwarded to New Mexico law enforcement officials, who have since stated that the matter was “being looked into.”

New Mexico law enforcement investigations into the property were underway in 2019 but were abruptly shut down at the request of the Trump administration’s DOJ, specifically the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Trump’s DOJ had also issued a “stand down” order to New York Police Department investigators in their criminal probe into Epstein five days after his death in 2019, per reporting from Just Security.